Italian Little Italies: Brisighella, in the hills amid fog and broom
WTI Magazine #66 2015 August, 21Author : I borghi più belli d'Italia Translation by: The village is set against a chalky hill dominated by three selenite cliffs, upon which the Fortress, the Clock Tower, and the Sanctuary of Monticino stand. On the other side it was defended by two concentric lines of walls which can still be seen in...
Cambridge to host 89th Italian Feast of Saints Sept. 12 and 13
The streets of East Cambridge and East Somerville will come alive for the 89th annual Italian Feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 12 and 13, on Warren Street in East Cambridge. There will be a food festival, parades, amusement rides, meatball and cannoli eating contests, "Frozen" and "Monsters Inc." movie characters, ca...
Aspetta primavera, Bandini e gli italo-americani di John Fante
di Eleonora Dragotto John Fante nasce nel 1909 nella fredda Denver, in Colorado, primo di quattro figli; suo padre, Nicola Fante, è un muratore di origine abruzzese, mentre la madre, casalinga cattolicissima, ha genitori lucani. Se la sua infanzia non è tra le più serene, altrettanto si può dire della sua vita adulta e della sua tormentata...
Il Neorealismo di Vittorio De Sica Conquista San Francisco - Intervista a Lino Capolicchio
di Roberto Natalini C'e' un'epoca d'oro nella storia del cinema italiano la quale non sembra mai tramontare. Questa considerazione e' quantomai attuale negli Stati Uniti dove si guarda ancora con grande ammirazione ai capolavori del cinema neorealista del secondo dopoguerra. Tra i protagonisti di questa fase, considerata come il Rinas...
Italian Heritage Month: Boston Molasses Flood Lecture/Slideshow in Boston
North End Branch of the Boston Public Library - 25 Parmenter Street - Boston, MA 02113Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 6:30 – 7:30pm The Great Molasses Flood of 1919, Boston's version of Pompeii, surely ranks as one of the city's worst disasters. Though the disaster was blamed at first on Italian anarchists, it was in fact the tank co...
The MILANO of Giuseppe Verdi - A Lecture & DVD Presentation by Lou Barrella
October 15 (Thursday) 6:30 pmThe city of Milan was an important location during the life of Giuseppe Verdi, however not without its contradictions. The Conservatory of Music which bears his name denied him entry as a young student. After five early opera premieres, he shunned La Scala for 36 years. Yet, Casa Ricordi, the famous publishing house, di...
Bancarella della Cucina. Premio alla storia di Giuseppino
Sono Joe Bastianich e Sara Porro - con "Giuseppino. Da New York all'Italia: storia del mio ritorno a casa", pubblicato da Utet - gli autori vincitori della decima edizione del Premio Bancarella della Cucina. La premiazione si è tenuta domenica a Pontremoli. Mai in bilico l'esito della votazione che ha visto prevalere con ampio margine, nel giudizi...
Pulcinella’s owner opens new restaurant in Chapel Hill
by Greg Cox Salvatore "Rino" Fevola, principal partner in Pulcinella's in Durham, has opened Magone Italian Grill & Pizza in Chapel Hill's Timberlyne Shopping Center. Fevola named the new restaurant for a branch on his family tree. But the menu is firmly rooted in the successful formula that has allowed Pulcinella's to thrive for nearly t...
Palm Beach Atlantic honors Vecellio on American Free Enterprise Day
By Andres David Lopez In 1938, after the dawn of the automobile age but before a national highway system, Italian immigrant Enrico Vecellio and a few partners founded a road-construction company. Today, Leo Vecellio Jr., Enrico's grandson, presides as chairman, president and CEO of Vecellio Group Inc., a contractor with highway, minin...
The young Italian who revolutionized menswear
When it's time to look sharp, men have lots of options these days. When it comes to suits, they can choose from the American cut, the English cut and of course, the Italian cut. But according to author Michelle Finamore this wasn't always the case. In the new book, "The Man Who Was Brioni" Finamore chronicles the fashion innovations of...
Cavalli Investment Seems to Show Private Equity Still Interested in Fashion
by Elizabeth Paton The global luxury market might be heading for its weakest year since 2009, but private equity investment, at least within the Italian fashion sector, appears to be back on a growth trend. After lurching from one recession to the next after the 2008 financial crisis, the hundreds of thousands of small- and medium...
The Unveiling of the Nativity of Mercy (Part 1)
By Giovanni di Napoli "The Nativity of Mercy" was officially unveiled Tuesday night at Most Precious Blood Church in Manhattan's Little Italy in honor of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and beginning of Pope Francis' Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy. Commissioned by Monsignor Donald Sakano, the Neapolitan presepio was cr...